Excited to develop a scalable cloud platform enabling enterprise observability?
Enjoy learning quickly and working across infrastructure, automation, and reliability?
Join one of our Cloud Observability teams
The team builds and supports a scalable, modern monitoring system for Akamai Cloud Enterprise customers, ensuring reliability and deep service insights. This includes developing Armada, a Kubernetes-based platform, and maintaining the Akamai Cloud Metrics and Inference Platform, essential for Cloud Observability. The observability platform delivers telemetry, metrics, and logs to enhance customer experience and operational efficiency.
Partner with the best
You will contribute to building and evolving a platform that is critical to enterprise customers and strategic internal initiatives.
As a Software you will be responsible for:
- Implementing scalable, reliable Kubernetes-based infrastructure solutions
- Implementing scalable, reliable Kubernetes-based infrastructure solutions
- Building and maintaining infrastructure as code using Terraform and Helm
- Automating operational workflows using Python and Bash
- Ensuring system stability, performance, and security across observability services
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Gain practical experience with a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure), understanding external cloud practices like cost optimization and cluster management.
- Have hands-on experience with Kubernetes
- Have experience with Python, Golang, Bash, Linux, Terraform, and Helm
- Have a solid understanding of networking fundamentals
- Have experience with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Loki, and OpenTelemetry Collector
- Have experience identifying and resolving security vulnerabilities
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
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